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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. HyperSQL vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hsqldb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2001

1994

Current release

15585

2.7.2, June 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

SQL-like query language

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

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

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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