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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. OrientDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. OrientDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Object oriented 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
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comorientdb.orgorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPRobert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2014199920102009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC#Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsJava, Javascriptyesyes
TriggersyesyesHooksyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRole based authorizationno

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