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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbhSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142012201120152011
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
WindowsWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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