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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hsqldb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Amazon Web Services

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2001

2021

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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 journaling

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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