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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2013

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language, no joins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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