DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. Kuzu vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. Kuzu vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

greptime.com

kuzudb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.greptime.com

docs.kuzudb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Greptime Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2022

1992

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
» more

Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
» more

Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
» more

Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
» more

Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Create a Marvel Database with SQL and Javascript, the easy way
2 July 2019, Towards Data Science

Multi faceted data exploration in the browser using Leaflet and amCharts
3 May 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

SAP vulnerabilities Let Attacker Inject OS Commands—Patch Now!
11 July 2023, CybersecurityNews

SAP Again Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems
21 December 2021, SAP News

Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 2 – Managed Rules | Amazon Web Services
17 July 2023, AWS Blog

MindsDB is now the leading and fastest growing applied ML platform in the world India - English
3 November 2022, PR Newswire

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

provided by Google News

Share this page