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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

docs.basex.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2012

2007

2010

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

10.7, August 2023

V12

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

XQuery supports types

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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