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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Tkrzw

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasedbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFairCom CorporationMicrosoftMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20141979201320102020
Current releaseV3, October 20202.7.6, April 2024V120.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptANSI C, C++GoC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noTransact SQLno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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AlaSQLFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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