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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
RDF storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.marklogic.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.marklogic.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMarkLogic Corp.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Teradata
Initial release20142009200120042005
Current release3.10.0, March 202211.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoRDF SchemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.nonoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infoSQL92noyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCacheJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesR packages
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes 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.yesyesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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