DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2010

2011

2013

2006

Current release

V12

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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