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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

OpenPie

Initial release

2014

2002

2011

Current release

4.0

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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