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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 instanceSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
postgis.netrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsRockset
Initial release2014202320052019
Current release1.0, March 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP REST
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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 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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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