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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM
Initial release2014200420102017
Current release8.0, December 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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