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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.stardog.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.stardog.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCirconus LLC.Stardog-UnionTeradata
Initial release20162014201720102005
Current release2.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 20187.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in Luauser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaR packages
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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