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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. JanusGraph vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

janusgraph.org

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2019

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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