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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisSequoiadb Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2014200620132019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++Clojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access control

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