DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

hbase.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hbase.apache.org/book.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Spotify

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

2011

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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