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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Linter vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

RDBMS for high security requirements

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

linter.ru

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

relex.ru

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Yanza

Initial release

2014

1990

2013

1987

2015

Current release

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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