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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CockroachDB vs. H2 vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.h2database.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

Thomas Mueller

Oushu

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

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

commercial

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Java

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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