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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HugeGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HugeGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph 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
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
machbase.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationBaiduMachbaseSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142012201820132022
Current release1.20.3, January 20230.9V8.0, August 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers, roles and permissionssimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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