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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#15  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgmachbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlmachbase.com/­dbmswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMachbase
Initial release201420132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2023
Current releaseV8.0, August 202310 R1, October 20181.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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