DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

memgraph.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2017

2015

1992

2016

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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 and C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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