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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comgeode.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Chris DavisRockset
Initial release20142012200220062019
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojureJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlydynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (OQL)noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights per client and object definablenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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