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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

IBM

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2011

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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