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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Blazegraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comdrill.apache.orgblazegraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docswiki.blazegraph.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software FoundationBlazegraph
Initial release2014199920122006
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 20232.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoRDF literal types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSPARQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C++.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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