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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Baidu

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2014

2018

1993

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

0.9

3.4-12

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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