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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Graphite vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationChris DavisSiteWhere
Initial release2014201320062010
Current release15585
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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