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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Vector 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
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142013201020212019
Current releaseV122.5.0, January 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Transact SQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availableyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLH2GISMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureOpenSearchTDengine
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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TDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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