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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
opentsdb.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142008201620112011
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++ and CUDAJavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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