DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.bigchaindb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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