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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQLite

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

2010

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

V12

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

via file-system locks

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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