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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. RDFox vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. RDFox vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgignite.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationOxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2014201520172014
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.66.0, Septermber 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, Java, .NetC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)replication via a shared file systemyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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