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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MonetDB vs. Stardog vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.monetdb.org

www.stardog.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.stardog.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

MonetDB BV

Stardog-Union

Weaviate B.V.

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2004

2010

2019

2015

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

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

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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