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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Hazelcast vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational 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	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

hazelcast.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hazelcast

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Events

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)

yes

Replicated Map

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

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