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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AntDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

.NET and C

Server operating systems

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

Linux

.NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL2016 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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