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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. Vitess

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 WhisperA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectChris DavisRocksetThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142012200620192013
Current release1.0.7075, December 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojurePythonC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlydynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 controlnononoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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