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

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High-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 caching

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

blazegraph.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

wiki.blazegraph.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Blazegraph

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2006

2003

2021

2006

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

1.6.27, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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