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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rockset
Initial release20142012200620102019
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojurePythonErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlynodynamic 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 indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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