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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Kdb vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.70
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

kx.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

code.kx.com

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Axibase Corporation

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2014

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2019

2010

Current release

15585

3.6, May 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

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

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

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

SQL-like query language (q)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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