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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

questdb.io

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

www.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP, Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

1987

2013

2000

Current release

16.0

8.5, January 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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 for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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