DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. SwayDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

bigobject.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

BigObject, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2018

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Python

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

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