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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Esgyn

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2023

2015

1987

Current release

1.0, March 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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