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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsChris DavisIBM
Initial release2014202320062014
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Python
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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