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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. SWC-DB

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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, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

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