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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Machbase

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2014

2013

1984

2020

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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