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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Stardog vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Stardog vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgobjectbox.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.stardog.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.objectbox.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.stardog.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffObjectBox LimitedSequoiadb Ltd.Stardog-UnionThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142017201320102013
Current release7.3.0, May 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary native APIproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyessimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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