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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

Kyligence, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

2000

Current release

2.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

No - written data is immutable

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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