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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. RDFox vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOxford Semantic TechnologiesAlex KashirinVK
Initial release20142013201720202008
Current release6.0, Septermber 20220.5, April 20212.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoC
Java
C++C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonereplication via a shared file systemAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRoles, resources, and access typesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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