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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen Source Time Series DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comrockset.comsiridb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comdocs.rockset.comdocs.siridb.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectRocksetCesbitThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142012201920172013
Current release1.0.6735, June 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojureC++CGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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 peersAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyesMulti-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 ConsistencyEventual 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 datayesyesyesyes 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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolesimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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