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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Immudb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.immudb.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Codenotary

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2020

2013

Current release

3.4, August 2019

1.2.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

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