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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

opentsdb.net

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2011

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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