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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

2019

1998

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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