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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.quasardb
Initial release20142016201720052009
Current release5.10, January 20222.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDAC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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