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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Drizzle vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20142018200820072004
Current release2.3, January 20217.2.4, September 201214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBCJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnonoyes
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDconfigurableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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