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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemachbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftCommunity supported by Red HatIBMMachbase
Initial release20142010201420142013
Current releaseV8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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AlaSQLGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHawkular MetricsIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux
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