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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Hypertable

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifyBaiduHypertable Inc.
Initial release2014201420182009
Current release0.90.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsno

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