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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
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	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

CNRS

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

2013

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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