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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. jBASE vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Baidu

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2010

2018

1991

2011

Current release

0.9

5.7

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

.NET

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

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