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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM vs. Speedb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWell established RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresnsdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.actian.com/­ingresnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActian CorporationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSpeedb
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201719932020
Current release11.2, May 20223.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLIngresNSDbOpenQM infoalso called QMSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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