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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationRackspaceDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotify
Initial release20142012201320232014
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemescheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++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 proceduresnouser defined functionsnoLuano
Triggersyesnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcenoPassword-based authentication

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