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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

IBM

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2017

2020

Current release

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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