DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Badger vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Badger vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

phoenix.apache.org

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

DGraph Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

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

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

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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