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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bigobject.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.bigobject.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2010

2019

Current release

V12

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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