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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. XTDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. XTDB vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
yanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffJuxt Ltd.Yanza
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20192015
Current release10 R1, October 20181.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, extensible-data-notation formatno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodistributed, parallel query executionlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
JDBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, each node contains all datanone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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