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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Bangdb  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Document store Graph DBMS Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.51 Rank #256   Overall #40   Document stores #118   Relational DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.16 Rank #338   Overall #47   Document stores #32   Graph DBMS #31   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	alasql.org	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	bangdb.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	github.com/­AlaSQL/­alasql	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.bangdb.com	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Alibaba	Sachin Sinha, BangDB	Microsoft
Initial release	2014		2012	2016
Current release			BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial	Open Source BSD 3	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	yes
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Implementation language	JavaScript		C, C++	C++
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	hosted	Linux	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	Numeric data and Strings	yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	no	SQL like support with command line tool	yes
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	HTTP REST	Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	Java	C C# C++ Java Python	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	Transact SQL
Triggers	yes	no	yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none		Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none		selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes, optimistic concurrency control	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	yes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts Access control	no	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes (enterprise version only)	yes
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	AlaSQL	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Bangdb	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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