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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCirconus LLC.MicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release2014201720102010
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaTransact SQL
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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