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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. GBase vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  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 FlinkWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgiotdb.apache.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhazelcast.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqliotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Chris DavisHazelcast
Initial release20142018200420062008
Current release1.1.0, April 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, Java, PythonPythonJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonoyesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Native API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesnoneyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyesnoRole-based access control

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