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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.h2database.comsplicemachine.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.Thomas MuellerSplice Machine
Initial release20142015200520142009
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
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)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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