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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orgbigobject.iodgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iodgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBigObject, Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release20142015201520162023
Current release3.1.0, July 20201.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freescheme-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 proceduresnoLuanoLua
Triggersyesnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authentication

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