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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographimpala.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera
Initial release2014201920182013
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Kerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleno infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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