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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Newts vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spanneropennms.github.io/­newtswww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleOpenNMS GroupStardog-Union
Initial release20142012201720142010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial 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 servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes 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.SQL like support with command line toolyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
GraphQL 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++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and roles

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