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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Dolt vs. GeoSpock vs. TimesTen

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

geospock.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.dolthub.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

DoltHub Inc

GeoSpock

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2018

1998

Current release

2.0, September 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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