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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.reduct.store/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ReductStore LLC

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2023

1987

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

1.9, March 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

MVCC

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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