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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgblazegraph.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwiki.blazegraph.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBlazegraphDataJaguar, Inc.MireoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142006201520202001
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.3 July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)rights management via user accountsyesno

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