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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Kinetica

Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2014

2012

2007

2004

Current release

7.1, August 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Live Events

yes

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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