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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. GridDB vs. Newts vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS based on CassandraEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.93
Rank#121  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comgriddb.netopennms.github.io/­newtswww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comdocs.griddb.netgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffToshiba CorporationOpenNMS GroupStardog-Union
Initial release20142010201320142010
Current release8.1, December 20185.1, August 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial 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 languageJavaScriptCC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes 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.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID at container levelnoACID
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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