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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Spatial extension of H2

Well established RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#188	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#130	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.h2gis.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cubrid.org/manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CNRS

Actian Corporation

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

2008

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

12.0, July 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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 languages

JavaScript

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

Java

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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