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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2016

2000

2011

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

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

Linux

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

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

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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