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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualspotify.github.io/­heroichelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftSpotifyBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20142010201419991994
Current releaseV8.0, August 202116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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