DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. H2 vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. H2 vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory caching system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cachelot.io

www.h2database.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2005

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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