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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS based on CassandraNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopennms.github.io/­newtswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.nuodb.comdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenNMS GroupDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Stardog-Union
Initial release20142010201420132010
Current release7.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial 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 servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonononono 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.nonoyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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 languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava, SQLuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandradata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess rights for users and roles

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