DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ vs. Ultipa

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

realm.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

realm.io/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

TempoIQ

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

2012

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

simple authentication-based access control

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