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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Drizzle

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Drizzle

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  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 libraryIn-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcachelot.iowww.citusdata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release2014201520102008
Current release8.1, December 20187.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnoyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP

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