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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzasiridb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimetypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.siridb.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBMCesbitMireoVaticle
Initial release20142000201720202016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoincluded in applianceLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoNumeric datayesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accountsyesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AlaSQLNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSiriDBSpaceTimeTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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