DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DGraph Labs

Thomas Mueller

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2000

2017

2005

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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