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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release2014199920122023
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freescheme-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C++C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsLua
Triggersyesyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcePassword-based authentication

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