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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. SAP IQ vs. Stardog vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

basex.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.stardog.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.stardog.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

SAP, formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2007

1994

2010

Current release

10.7, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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