DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Drizzle vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Drizzle vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	6.31
Rank	#57	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datastax.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DataStax

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SAP

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

2011

2008

2010

Current release

6.8, April 2020

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

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

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

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.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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