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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.kinetica.comdocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffKineticaStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142012201020142019
Current release7.1, August 20217.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++JavaC++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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