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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. PlanetScale vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. PlanetScale vs. Solr

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
planetscale.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsplanetscale.com/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaiduPlanetScaleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201820202006
Current release0.99.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes infoproprietary syntaxJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
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
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID at shard leveloptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
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 permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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