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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Blueflood vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

druid.apache.org

blueflood.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rackspace

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

1998

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

predefined scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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