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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. DataFS vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comnewdatabase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Mobiland AGIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2014200420182010
Current release8.0, December 20231.1.263, October 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Windowshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationProprietary Sharding systemSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationWindows-ProfileAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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AlaSQLAllegroGraphDataFSIBM Cloudant
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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