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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. GraphDB vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#91	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.geomesa.org

www.ontotext.com

google.github.io/lovefield

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

origodb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CCRi and others

Ontotext

Google

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

2000

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

10.4, October 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

depending on model

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

Role based authorization

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