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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. JaguarDB vs. Prometheus vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. JaguarDB vs. Prometheus vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.jaguardb.comprometheus.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlprometheus.io/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDataJaguar, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142008201520152014
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.3 July 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesGoC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infoby Federationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPrights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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