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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDolphinDB, IncStardog-UnionTeradataTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142018201020051987
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20227.3.0, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaR packagesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handlersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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