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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. Stardog vs. Warp 10

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.stardog.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.stardog.comwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectElasticStardog-UnionSenX
Initial release20142012201020102015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20238.6, January 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojureJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes infoWarpScript
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication in HA-Clusterselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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