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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Bangdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

A 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 model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

bangdb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.bangdb.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2019

2012

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes (enterprise version only)

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