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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2006

2013

2017

2009

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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