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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	0.93
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.dolthub.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DoltHub Inc

IBM

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2018

2017

Current release

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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