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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 instanceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational 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
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.kinetica.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsKineticaTimescale
Initial release2014202320122017
Current release1.0, March 20237.1, August 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C, C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 serveryesyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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