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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#264	Overall
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	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

memgraph.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

memgraph.com/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Memgraph Ltd

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2017

2009

2010

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

with snapshot isolation

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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