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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20142016201220081984
Current release2.3.4, January 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers and groups

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