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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

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	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

hbase.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hbase.apache.org/book.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2008

1984

2013

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

ACID

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users and groups

yes

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