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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. Graph Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoft
Initial release2014201420122010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++.NET and C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux.NET
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL like support with command line toolno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as welloptional: 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 infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes (enterprise version only)

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