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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

C++ and CUDA

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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