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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. RDFox

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.h2database.comhive.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20142023200520122017
Current release1.0, March 20232.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20226.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factorreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRoles, resources, and access types

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