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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
cloud.google.com/­spannerrdf4j.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcubrid.org/­manualscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SQream Technologies
Initial release20142008201720042017
Current release11.0, January 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++, JavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnoyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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