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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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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
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsThomas MuellerIBMKinetica
Initial release20142018200520172012
Current release2.3, January 20212.2.220, July 20232.07.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++C, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
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 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.yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding
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 databaseActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
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-storageACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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