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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Axibase vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financehsqldb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationRockset
Initial release20142019201320012019
Current release155852.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDno
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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