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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. HyperSQL vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

blueflood.io

hsqldb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rackspace

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2013

2001

2014

1994

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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