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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2016

2005

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

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

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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