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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. Prometheus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score3.77
Rank#87  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgarangodb.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.DGraph LabsThomas Mueller
Initial release20142012201720052015
Current release3.11.5, November 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++GoJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnoyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
GoJava.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0nonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
noneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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AlaSQLArangoDBBadgerH2Prometheus
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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