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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Sqrrl

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netsqrrl.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisToshiba CorporationAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release2014200620132012
Current release5.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID at container levelAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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