DBMS > AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. HEAVY.AI vs. openGemini vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. HEAVY.AI vs. openGemini vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

docs.heavy.ai

docs.opengemini.org/guide

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2016

2022

2016

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators and common users accounts

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