DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Infobright vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Infobright vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

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

Website

alasql.org

arangodb.com

www.eventstore.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.arangodb.com

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ArangoDB Inc.

Event Store Limited

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2013

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

21.2, February 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

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

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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