DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Percona

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2015

Current release

2.0

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.