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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. StarRocks

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.CNRSMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20142004201320102020
Current release8.0, December 2023V122.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infobased on H2Transact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith Federationnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas available
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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AlaSQLAllegroGraphH2GISMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureStarRocks
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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