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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hive vs. KeyDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hive vs. KeyDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarydata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
opentsdb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.keydb.devopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2014201220192011
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuano
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control and ACLno

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