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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DataFS vs. Rockset vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.rockset.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Mobiland AG

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2018

2019

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP REST

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Role-based access control

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