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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleMachbaseStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142014201320102014
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 20237.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptCJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
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
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Procedures
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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