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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 instanceA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
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
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
origodb.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsRobert Friberg et alApache Software Foundation
Initial release201420232009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current release1.0, March 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C#JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
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
.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelno
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 scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationRole based authorizationno

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