DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KairosDB vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KairosDB vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

kairosdb.github.io

docs.keydb.dev

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2013

2019

2014

Current release

1703

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

LDAP bind authentication

simple password-based access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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