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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroracambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonCambridge Semantics
Initial release2014201520182014
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions and aggregatesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-Clusternone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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