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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Rockset vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

docs.rockset.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rockset

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

2019

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

all fields are automatically indexed

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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)

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

yes

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