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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDGraph LabsIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.quasardb
Initial release20142017201720052009
Current release2.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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
Secondary indexesnononono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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