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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Heroic

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 virtualizationTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#255  Overall
#37  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#317  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#267  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzographspotify.github.io/­heroic/­#!/­index
Technical documentationgithub.com/­agershun/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmspotify.github.io/­heroic/­#!/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsSpotify
Initial release201420182014
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearch
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.no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
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 roles

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