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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenSearch

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector 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	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

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

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Spotify

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2014

2000

2014

2021

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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