DBMS > AlaSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

2016

2010

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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.

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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