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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score6.92
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.gridgain.comopennms.github.io/­newtsprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGridGain Systems, Inc.OpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20142007201420152009
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonono
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
nonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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