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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsSAP infoformerly SybaseTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142012201219922019
Current release29.0.1, April 202417, July 20153.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL for queryingyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACID
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAmazon DynamoDBApache DruidSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTDengine
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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