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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hyprcubd vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryServerless Time Series DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orghyprcubd.com (offline)rdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHyprcubd, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014200420182018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesnoyes
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC (https)Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnotoken accessnonoRole-based access control

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