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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. Stardog vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.stardog.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.stardog.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffElasticRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Stardog-UnionTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142010199120102019
Current release8.6, January 20235.77.3.0, May 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesyes
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infovia event handlersyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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AlaSQLElasticsearchjBASEStardogTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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