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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GBase vs. RDF4J vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.gbase.cn

rdf4j.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cambridge Semantics

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2018

2004

2009

Current release

2.3, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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