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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GreptimeDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

greptime.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.greptime.com

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Greptime Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2015

2022

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple rights management via user accounts

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