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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. H2 vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. H2 vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2database.comnsdb.iosqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisThomas MuellerSQream Technologies
Initial release20142006200520172017
Current release2.2.220, July 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaJava, ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJava
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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