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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. Rockset vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orgbangdb.comrockset.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comdocs.rockset.comdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBRocksetStardog-Union
Initial release20142014201220192010
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019BangDB 2.0, October 20217.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial 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 servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsdynamic typingyes
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialall fields are automatically indexedyes 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.yesSQL like support with command line toolRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual 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-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users and roles

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