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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iohbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKinetica
Initial release20142010200820122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaC, C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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