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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Ingres vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWell established RDBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBActian CorporationOracleRockset
Initial release201420121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20112019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, May 202223.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++CJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesoptionaldynamic typing
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Ingres ReplicatorElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMVCCyesyes
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 modenoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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