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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 virtualizationFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsThomas MuellerSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20142018200520142015
Current release2.3, January 20212.2.220, July 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
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-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
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.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
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-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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