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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenQM vs. Teradata vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orghsqldb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.teradata.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.teradata.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTeradataVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142001199319842010
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.4-12Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelJava
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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