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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Memcached vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Memcached vs. ObjectBox

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdgraph.iowww.hawkular.orgwww.memcached.orgobjectbox.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldgraph.io/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDgraph Labs, Inc.Community supported by Red HatDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalObjectBox Limited
Initial release20142016201420032017
Current release1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocolProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate 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-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes
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