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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. HugeGraph vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. HugeGraph vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
machbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBBaiduMachbase
Initial release20142012201220182013
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20210.9V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
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, geospatialyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)Users, roles and permissionssimple password-based access control

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