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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewobjectbox.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20142012201320172009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.7.6, April 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++GoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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, geospatialnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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 modeyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accountsyesyes infousers and table-level permissions
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AlaSQLBangdbInfluxDBObjectBoxRethinkDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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