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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. H2 vs. OpenTSDB

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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

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Thomas Mueller

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a 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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

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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