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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GraphDB vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#91	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ontotext.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.voltdb.com

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Ontotext

SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

2010

Current release

10.4, October 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

SQLScript, R

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Key customers

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