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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Couchbase vs. Greenplum vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.couchbase.comgreenplum.orgwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.couchbase.comdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Couchbase, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Thomas Mueller
Initial release20142004201120052005
Current release8.0, December 2023Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20237.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++, Go and ErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possibleyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesyesyes infovia the TAP protocolyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationAutomatic ShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 infoEphemeral bucketsnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLAllegroGraphCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseGreenplumH2
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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