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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.comwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonThomas Mueller
Initial release20142012200520172009
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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