DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. jBASE vs. Redis vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. jBASE vs. Redis vs. Sqrrl

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Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	155.94
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

redis.com
redis.io

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

1991

2009

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.7

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Aiven for Redis: Fully managed in-memory key-value store for all your caching and speedy lookup needs.

Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

optional

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with RediSearch module

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

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 hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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