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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. Immudb vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

duckdb.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

duckdb.org/docs

docs.immudb.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Codenotary

Initial release

2014

2018

2020

2017

Current release

0.10, February 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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