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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

hazelcast.com

boilerbay.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Hazelcast

Boiler Bay Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

2008

2002

2021

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

4.0

2.5.0, January 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

none

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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