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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

nsdb.io

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2017

2019

2010

2011

Current release

3.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Scala

C
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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

yes

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