DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2005

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2010

2011

Current release

11.5.2, August 2024

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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