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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. Heroic

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisSpotify
Initial release201420062014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric 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
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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