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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. FatDB vs. Heroic

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FatCloud

Spotify

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via applications

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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