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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. Infobright vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdgraph.iowww.gigaspaces.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldgraph.io/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDgraph Labs, Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20142016200020052011
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJava, C++, .NetCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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