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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.pinecone.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaiduPinecone Systems, IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014201820192019
Current release0.91.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, Number, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
PythonClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions

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