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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Dgraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Dgraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comdgraph.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comdgraph.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBDgraph Labs, Inc.
Initial release2014200720122016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL like support with command line toolno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Synchronous replication via Raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
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 mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)no infoPlanned for future releases

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