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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsCirconus LLC.OracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20142018201720112009
Current release2.3, January 2021V0.10.20, January 201823.3, December 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptionalyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesnononoyesyes
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.SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in Luano
TriggersyesnononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate 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-storageACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)Atomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.yesyesnoyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissions

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