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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Graphite vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Widely used RDBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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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	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.oracle.com/database

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Chris Davis

Oracle

Percona

Initial release

2014

2023

2006

1980

2008

Current release

1.0, March 2023

23c, September 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

locking

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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