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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgatoti.ioquestdb.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.atoti.ioquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActiveViamFatCloudQuestDB Technology IncMireo
Initial release2014201220142020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)no infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL with time-series extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes
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AlaSQLatotiFatDBQuestDBSpaceTime
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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