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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Transbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.hawkular.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsCommunity supported by Red HatTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142016202320141987
Current release1.0, March 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuanoyes
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-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 infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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