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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. OpenQM

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

dgraph.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

dgraph.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

2008

1993

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Planned for future releases

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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