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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Axibase vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financehsqldb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orghsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationRockset
Initial release20142014201320012019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019155852.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languageyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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