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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Prometheus vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

prometheus.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Timer and event based

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

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Immediate 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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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