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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. QuestDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.exasol.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffExasolEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20142000198420172014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFixed schemayes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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AlaSQLEXASOLInterbaseManticore SearchQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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