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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseExasolCirconus LLC.
Initial release20141999201320002017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92noyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
GoJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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