DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. JanusGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. JanusGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

clickhouse.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

janusgraph.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Clickhouse Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2016

1979

2017

2016

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V3, October 2020

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles

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