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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. Informix vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.cominformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationSachin Sinha, BangDBIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20142013201219842015
Current release15585BangDB 2.0, October 202114.10.FC5, November 20203.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++C, C++ and JavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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 indexesnonoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsrights management via user accounts

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