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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Bangdb vs. Infobright vs. SingleStore

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­neptunebangdb.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.bangdb.comdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.SingleStore Inc.
Initial release20142017201220052013
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++CC++, Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL like support with command line toolyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
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 FileStorageyes infowith encyption-at-restyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
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 controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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AlaSQLAmazon NeptuneBangdbInfobrightSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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