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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. LeanXcale vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. LeanXcale vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggreptime.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.greptime.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGreptime Inc.LeanXcaleSymasMicrosoft
Initial release20142022201520112010
Current release0.9.32, January 2024V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infothrough Apache Derbynoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLGreptimeDBLeanXcaleLMDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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