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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Dragonfly vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dragonflydb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014199920232001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0, March 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsLuano
Triggersyesyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationno

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