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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityOracles in-memory data grid solutionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectOracleRocksetTobias Oetiker
Initial release20142012200720191999
Current release1.0.6735, June 202314.1, August 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojureJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesdynamic typingNumeric data only
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 supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes, with selectable consistency levelyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDconfigurablenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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)yes infooptionallyyesyes
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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