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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.ioblueflood.iorockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.RackspaceRockset
Initial release2014201520132019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesdynamic 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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual 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-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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