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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes Technologies
Initial release20142012200820161994
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.2.4, September 20125.10, January 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C++C++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesno
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 modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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