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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Time Series DBMS and big data platformScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographfauna.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.fauna.comdocs.tdengine.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsFauna, Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142018201420192018
Current release2.3, January 20213.0, August 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
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.noStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesRole-based access control
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AlaSQLAnzoGraph DBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBTDengineTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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