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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. openGemini vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dgraph.io/docs

docs.opengemini.org/guide

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Huawei and openGemini community

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2022

2011

Current release

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators and common users accounts

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