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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. InfluxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA widely adopted in-memory data gridApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financehazelcast.comignite.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationHazelcastApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142013200820152013
Current release155855.3.6, November 2023Apache Ignite 2.62.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++, Java, .NetGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
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.yesyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accounts
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AlaSQLAxibaseHazelcastIgniteInfluxDB
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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