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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	0.90
Rank	#234	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	2.71
Rank	#124	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#22	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#139	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

InterSystems

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

2018

2010

Current release

2021.1, June 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

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

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

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

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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