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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142016201520092009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonononoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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