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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. Stardog vs. Teradata vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgignite.apache.orgwww.stardog.comwww.teradata.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.stardog.comdocs.teradata.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationStardog-UnionTeradataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142015201019842014
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.3.0, May 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, Java, .NetJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
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.noyesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
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 DDLYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia event handlersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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