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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.keydb.devdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OracleQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20142019200720142008
Current release14.1, August 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonono
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsconfigurableACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control and ACLauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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AlaSQLKeyDBOracle CoherenceQuestDBSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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