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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2015

2023

2012

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

yes

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