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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. HyperSQL vs. NSDb vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hsqldb.org

nsdb.io

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Axibase Corporation

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2014

2013

2001

2017

2010

Current release

15585

2.7.2, June 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
Scala

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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