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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. EJDB vs. H2 vs. NCache

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.h2database.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Softmotions

Thomas Mueller

Alachisoft

Initial release

2014

2000

2012

2005

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

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

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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