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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Dgraph vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financedgraph.iohsqldb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldgraph.io/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationDgraph Labs, Inc.Rockset
Initial release20142013201620012019
Current release155852.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava, SQLno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via Raftnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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