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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Fauna vs. JanusGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

clickhouse.com

fauna.com

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.fauna.com

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Fauna, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

2017

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Identity management, authentication, and access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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