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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. Kuzu

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryCockroachDB 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#402  Overall
#41  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgkuzudb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.kuzudb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCockroach LabsChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20142015200620122022
Current release24.1.0, May 20243.1.3, April 20220.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal 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 RAFTnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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