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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. openGemini

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessmilvus.iowww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaiduMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20142018199220192022
Current release0.91902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.4, May 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++, GoGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesVector, Numeric and StringInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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 infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based access control and fine grained access rightsAdministrators and common users accounts
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