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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Splice Machine

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.jaguardb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Circonus LLC.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

2017

2015

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.3 July 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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