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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineCloud-based data warehousing serviceA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orgwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationMicrosoftIBMSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142014201020142022
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava.NET and CRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
.NEThostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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