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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Graph Engine vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.graphengine.iogoogle.github.io/­lovefieldterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationMicrosoftGoogleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142013201020142018
Current release155852.1.12, February 201711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava.NET and CJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux.NETserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnoyes
TriggersyesyesnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
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 storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access control

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