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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgarangodb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.MicrosoftRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142012201019912009
Current release3.11.5, November 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++.NET and C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETAIX
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnonoyes
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 controlnoyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLArangoDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityjBASEYaacomo
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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