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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2database.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Thomas MuellerTobias OetikerSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20142012200519992014
Current release2.2.220, July 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMHP-UX
Linux
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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