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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. GreptimeDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gigaspaces.com

greptime.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.greptime.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Gigaspaces Technologies

Greptime Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2014

2000

2022

2010

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Role-based access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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