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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  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 RDBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comwww.exasol.comwww.harperdb.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseExasolHarperDBCirconus LLC.
Initial release20141999200020172017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.1, August 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Node.jsC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes 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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.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 functionsuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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