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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Graphite vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksChris DavisSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2014201320062013
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.with Databricks SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoJavaScript
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access control
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