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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kingbase vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.InterSystemsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20142004201819992020
Current release8.0, December 20232023.3, June 2023V8.0, August 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
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 integrityyesnoyesyes
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 datayesyesyesyes
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 authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLAllegroGraphInterSystems IRISKingbaseSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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