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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Memcached vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Memcached vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblazegraph.comwww.memcached.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonBlazegraphDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20142007200620032006
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.6.27, May 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infoRDF literal typesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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