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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Relational 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
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretypedb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmltypedb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSAP, formerly SybaseSiteWhereVaticleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20141994201020162013
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20192.28.3, June 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infobased on HBasenoSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSynchronous replication via raftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AlaSQLSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSiteWhereTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVitess
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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