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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Transwarp
Initial release2014200820122004
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C, C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes

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