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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseopentsdb.netrockset.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRocksetSimer Plaha
Initial release20141991201120192018
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsdynamic typingno
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.noyesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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