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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#17  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrocksdb.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20142012201020132023
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20219.4.0, June 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++ErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnonoVector, Numeric and String
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
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 algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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