DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Databend vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Databend vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.databend.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Databend Labs

FairCom Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2008

2021

1979

2015

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.0.59, April 2023

V3, October 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Rust

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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