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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Rockset

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
rockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDGraph LabsHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rockset
Initial release20142017201620162019
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoPythonC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesdynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnononoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoRound robinAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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