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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. CockroachDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

allegrograph.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Franz Inc.

Cockroach Labs

SAP

Initial release

2014

2004

2015

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

dynamic schema

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SPARQL is used as query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

yes

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