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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dolphindb.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DolphinDB, Inc

Circonus LLC.

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2018

2017

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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