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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of H2

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#269	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.53
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#208	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

www.h2gis.org

www.ittia.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CNRS

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2014

2013

2007

2010

2004

Current release

8.7

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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