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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. HBase vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlkairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20142015200820132017
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesnoyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access control

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