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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
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	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2007

2016

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

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

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

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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