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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Vaticle
Initial release20142000201019842016
Current release7.4.1.1, 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AlaSQLEXASOLIBM CloudantOracle RdbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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