DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Axibase Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2014

2013

2021

2019

2013

Current release

15585

2.5.0, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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