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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142015201320152009
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V13.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoErlang
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
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonoErlang
Triggersyesnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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 infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, using Riak Security
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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