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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. openGemini

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iographite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.Chris DavisMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20142015200620102022
Current releaseV121.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infolockingyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accounts

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