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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opentsdb.net

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oushu

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2011

1993

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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