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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rockset.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2012

2011

2019

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

23.3, December 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

optional

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

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 DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

via file-system locks

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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