DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

brytlyt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Brytlyt

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2016

2018

2013

2017

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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