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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Drizzle vs. Graph Engine vs. H2

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.graphengine.io

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2008

2010

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public 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

C++

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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