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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgblazegraph.comwww.memcached.orgmemgraph.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimemgraph.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBlazegraphDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMemgraph LtdSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20142006200320172006
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.6.27, May 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesnoyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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