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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Faircom DB vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Faircom DB vs. Memcached

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBFairCom CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2014201219792003
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021V12, November 20201.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++ANSI C, C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryno
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 modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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