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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

1995

2010

2003

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

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#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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