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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OpenQM vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2014

2017

1993

2015

Current release

2.0

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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