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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSSpotifyBaiduByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142013201420182016
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2noasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2yesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissionsno

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