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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Serverless Time Series DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerhyprcubd.com (offline)rdf4j.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleHyprcubd, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014201720042018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)token accessnoRole-based access control

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