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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. BigObject

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bangdb.com

bigobject.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.bangdb.com

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

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