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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

1991

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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