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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score3.30
Rank#82  Overall
#14  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#10  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgarangodb.comnsdb.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.Huawei and openGauss communitySTS Soft SC
Initial release20142012201720192011
Current release3.11.5, November 20233.0, March 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java, ScalaC, C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonono
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)
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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AlaSQLArangoDBNSDbopenGaussSTSdb
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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