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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

greptime.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.greptime.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Greptime Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2022

1991

2011

1980

Current release

5.7

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is 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

Rust

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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