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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Stardog vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org

www.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Stardog-Union

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

2001

2010

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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