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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iodgraph.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iodgraph.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftSAP
Initial release20142015201620102010
Current releaseV122.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoTransact SQLSQLScript, R
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication via Raftyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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 controlnonono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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