DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

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Score	0.49
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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2014

1999

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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