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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

users and table-level permissions

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