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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cockroach Labs

FairCom Corporation

Baidu

Initial release

2014

2015

1979

2018

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

V3, October 2020

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

edges in graph

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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

Users, roles and permissions

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