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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

allegrograph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Franz Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2014

2004

2010

2005

2021

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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