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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MonetDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  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 enginedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iohive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMMonetDB BV
Initial release20142010201220142004
Current release3.1.3, April 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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