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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. jBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.CognitectRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2014200420121991
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.6735, June 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptional
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 possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsyes
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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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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