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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sadasengine.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2011

2006

2003

Current release

23.3, December 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

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
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

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.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

off heap cache

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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