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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#334  Overall
#45  Document stores
#31  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebangdb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationSachin Sinha, BangDBRockset
Initial release20142013201220132019
Current release15585BangDB 2.0, October 20212.7.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsNumeric data and Stringsdynamic 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 indexesnonoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAxibaseBangdbInfluxDBRockset
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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