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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Newts vs. RisingWave vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

opennms.github.io/newts

www.risingwave.com/database

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

OpenNMS Group

RisingWave Labs

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

1979

2014

2022

2010

Current release

V3, October 2020

1.2, September 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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