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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Cubrid vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

allegrograph.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

cubrid.org/manuals

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Franz Inc.

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2004

2008

2014

2005

Current release

8.0, December 2023

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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