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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Fauna vs. SQLite

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comalasql.orgbangdb.comfauna.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comdocs.fauna.comwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBFauna, Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122014201220142000
Current release7.0, November 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20213.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC, C++ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxhostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoyes (enterprise version only)Identity management, authentication, and access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlaSQLBangdbFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBSQLite
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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