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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.h2database.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

1979

2005

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

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

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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