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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWidely used open source RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orghbase.apache.orgwww.mysql.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
rocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldev.mysql.com/­docopensearch.org/­docs/­latestgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunAmazon Web ServicesFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20142008199520212013
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.4.0, April 20242.5.0, January 20239.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesno
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 indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoproprietary syntaxyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual 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 integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
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)ACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno
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AlaSQLHBaseMySQLOpenSearchRocksDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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