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

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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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Document 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	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

www.memcached.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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Thomas Mueller

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

2003

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

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

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate 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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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