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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenTSDB vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score61.90
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgcloud.google.com/­bigqueryopentsdb.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014201020112019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)no

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