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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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 RDBMSHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comblazegraph.comwww.h2database.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswiki.blazegraph.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseBlazegraphThomas MuellerBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20141999200620052002
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.1.5, March 20192.2.220, July 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SPARQL is used as query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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