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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

DolphinDB, Inc

Mireo

Initial release

2014

1999

2018

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

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