DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake

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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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

www.bigchaindb.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

Circonus LLC.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

2014

Current release

1703

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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