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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 virtualizationGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsCCRi and othersHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20142018201420082010
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, May 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
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.noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterdepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-Clusterdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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