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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. FoundationDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
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
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBFoundationDB
Initial release20142012201420122013
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019BangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infosome layers support typing
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL like support with command line toolsupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoin SQL-layer only
Triggersyesnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, 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.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes (enterprise version only)no

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