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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWidely used open source RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.mysql.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdev.mysql.com/­docgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20142018201019952013
Current release0.98.4.0, April 20249.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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