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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. KairosDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ehcache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2009

2013

1987

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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