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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Baidu

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2018

1994

2008

Current release

0.9

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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