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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Database based on LuceneA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcratedb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcratedb.com/­docsdocs.heavy.aideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCrateHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftTobias Oetiker
Initial release20142013201619921999
Current release5.10, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++ and CUDAC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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