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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifyBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2014201420182010
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
hosted
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
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 HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual 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 infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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