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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blazegraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgblazegraph.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwiki.blazegraph.comrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBlazegraphThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20142006200920102018
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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-storageACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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