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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2023

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access Control Lists

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