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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dolt vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dolt vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.dolthub.comdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDoltHub IncKineticaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142018201220171998
Current release7.1, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC, C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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