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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Dgraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgdgraph.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgdgraph.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHDgraph Labs, Inc.
Initial release201420072016
Current release10.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication via Raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno infoPlanned for future releases

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