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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. GridGain vs. Newts

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gridgain.comopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisGridGain Systems, Inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release2014200620072014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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