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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. MonetDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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 BigTableA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iohbase.apache.orgwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMonetDB BV
Initial release2014201020082004
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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