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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/google/leveldb

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2011

2017

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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