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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Scala

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on storage layer

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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