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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn embedded key-value store for Go.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20142012201320092018
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++GoC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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 indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
GoC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneImmediate 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-storageACIDyesAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)noyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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