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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. Infobright vs. Memgraph vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.eventstore.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

memgraph.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.eventstore.com

memgraph.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Event Store Limited

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2017

2012

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

with snapshot isolation

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 periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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