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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. HBase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeblazegraph.comwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewiki.blazegraph.comhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaBlazegraphGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20142016200620042008
Current release2.1.5, March 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSPARQL is used as query languageStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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