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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Hypertable

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

dgraph.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2016

2015

2009

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor on file system level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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