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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Ehcache vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgwww.ehcache.orgrocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFacebook, Inc.Tobias Oetiker
Initial release20142007200920131999
Current release10.7, August 20233.10.0, March 20228.11.4, April 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyesnoNumeric data only
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JCacheC++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writeryes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonono

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