DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.databend.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Databend Labs

SAP

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2014

2021

2010

2018

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

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

hosted
Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

yes

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