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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpouchdb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software FoundationTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142005199320122019
Current release3.4-127.1.1, June 20193.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLInfobrightOpenQM infoalso called QMPouchDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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