DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
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	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.geomesa.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

CCRi and others

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2014

1995

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

partitioning by range, list and by hash

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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