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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. H2

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

iotdb.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

cubrid.org/manuals

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2018

2008

2005

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

11.0, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

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)

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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