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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbangdb.comwww.gridgain.comwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bangdb.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBGridGain Systems, Inc.CNRS
Initial release20142012201220072013
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++Java, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL like support with command line toolANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infobased on H2
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes (replicated cache)yes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, 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.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes (enterprise version only)Security Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on H2

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