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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Infobright vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/neptune

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

1984

2015

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

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

with encyption-at-rest

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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