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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHEAVY.AI, Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release20142016201620132010
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++ and CUDAJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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