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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orghsqldb.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.kinetica.comdocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffKineticaStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142001201220102014
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.1, August 20217.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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