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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Geode vs. Infobright vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Geode vs. Infobright vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgblueflood.iogeode.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigeode.apache.org/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRackspaceOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20142013200220052019
Current release1.1, February 20171.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaCClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnononono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (OQL)yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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