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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

hbase.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2008

2011

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

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

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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)

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

simple authentication-based access control

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