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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. SiriDB vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. SiriDB vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 Time Series DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#346  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsiridb.comwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.siridb.comdocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonCesbitStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142012201720102014
Current release7.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoNumeric datayesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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