DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

allegrograph.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Franz Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2004

2018

2014

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

0.8, December 2018

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 can be defined down to the item level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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