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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.geomesa.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

CCRi and others

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2014

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

Scala

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

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

Linux

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

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