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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. IRONdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
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
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSoftmotionsCirconus LLC.
Initial release20142004200920122017
Current release8.0, December 20233.10.0, March 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCachein-process shared libraryHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonoyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonono
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AlaSQLAllegroGraphEhcacheEJDBIRONdb
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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