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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. IBM Db2 vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2origodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2origodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksIBMRobert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201420131983 infohost version2009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current release12.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C#Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.noyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.with Databricks SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno
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AlaSQLDatabricksIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2OrigoDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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