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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgjsqldb.org (offline)www.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsKonrad von BackstromStardog-Union
Initial release20142012201220182010
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.8, December 20187.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL for queryingnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononofunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnononoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and roles

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