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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarydata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orghive.apache.orgwww.kinetica.commanticoresearch.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.kinetica.commanual.manticoresearch.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKineticaManticore SoftwareSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20142012201220172004
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.1, August 20216.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFixed schemayes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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