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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Greenplum vs. IRONdb vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

greenplum.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

machbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.greenplum.org

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Pivotal Software Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Machbase

Initial release

2014

2005

2017

2013

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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