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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Dragonfly vs. Sequoiadb vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.sequoiadb.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSequoiadb Ltd.Stardog-Union
Initial release20142013202320132010
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0, March 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuaJavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPassword-based authenticationsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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