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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Couchbase vs. GraphDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Serverless Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score16.74
Rank#33  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score2.76
Rank#99  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.couchbase.comwww.ontotext.comhyprcubd.com (offline)github.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.couchbase.comgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.tdengine.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCouchbase, Inc.OntotextHyprcubd, Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2014201120002019
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 202310.4, October 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaGoC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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 indexesnoyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
gRPC (https)JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynono
Triggersyesyes infovia the TAP protocolnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoConstraint checkingnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
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.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.token accessyes
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AlaSQLCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHyprcubdTDengine
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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