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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. Netezza vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

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.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dolphindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DolphinDB, Inc

IBM

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2018

2000

2011

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

SQL-like query language

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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