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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.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 modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqliotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationDGraph LabsThomas Muellercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20142018201720052011
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
GoJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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