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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. Newts vs. OpenQM vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. Newts vs. OpenQM vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgblazegraph.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBlazegraphOpenNMS GroupRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsStardog-Union
Initial release20142006201419932010
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.4-127.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
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
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST
Java API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
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 Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles

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