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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCockroach LabsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20142013201520082016
Current release23.1.1, May 20237.2.4, September 20125.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoGoC++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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