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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Serverless Time Series DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

dgraph.io

hyprcubd.com (offline)

rdf4j.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dgraph.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2016

2004

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

gRPC (https)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

token access

Role-based access control

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