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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. Hive

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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