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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP

Tencent

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2010

2013

1998

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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