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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.xtdb.com/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2019

2023

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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