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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SurrealDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Port of SQLite to JavaScriptA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsql.js.orgsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iosql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSurrealDB LtdByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201220222016
Current release1.2.2, November 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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