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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigobject.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerprometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.bigobject.iowww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDGraph LabsBigObject, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release20142017201519832015
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesNumeric 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.nononoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoPHP.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuayesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonenonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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 controlnononosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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