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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Drizzle vs. ObjectBox

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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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

In-memory caching system

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2014

2018

2015

2008

2017

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Native API

Memcached protocol

JDBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

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

yes

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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