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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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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	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Baidu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

2018

2014

2003

2010

Current release

0.9

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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