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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Graphite vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Graphite vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHChris DavisThomas MuellerBaidu
Initial release20142007200620052018
Current release10.7, August 20232.2.220, July 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions

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