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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MaxDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

DataChemist Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

1984

2018

2020

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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 journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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