DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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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	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2012

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

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

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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