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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. jBASE vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. jBASE vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 virtualizationA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Multivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
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
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseorientdb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSimer Plaha
Initial release20142018199120102018
Current release2.3, January 20215.73.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
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.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyesJava, Javascriptno
TriggersyesnoyesHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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