DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Bangdb vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bangdb.com

quasar.ai

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bangdb.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

quasardb

Timescale

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

2017

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

integer and binary

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

restricted

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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