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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. Sqrrl

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasesqrrl.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBElasticRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20142012201019912012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesoptionalyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
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 modeMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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