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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFairCom CorporationHypertable Inc.Google
Initial release20142016197920092011
Current releaseV12, November 20200.9.8.11, March 20161.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonANSI C, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).selectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagetunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnono

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