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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmachbase.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iomachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisMachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142006201320131984
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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