DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. SpaceTime vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. SpaceTime vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2015

2020

1999

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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