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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Interbase vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Interbase vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEmbarcaderoQuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly SybaseSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20141984201419922013
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL with time-series extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID for single-table writesACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
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AlaSQLInterbaseQuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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