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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hive vs. Postgres-XL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlhive.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqljena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookRocket Software
Initial release2014200020122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1985
Current release4.9.0, July 20233.1.3, April 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaCC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesoptional
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyes infovia event handlernoyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoTDB TransactionsnoACID infoMVCCACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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