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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OceanBase vs. PlanetScale vs. RRDtool vs. Stardog

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#262  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.99
Rank#185  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#137  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#122  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgen.oceanbase.complanetscale.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databaseplanetscale.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupPlanetScaleTobias OetikerStardog-Union
Initial release20142010202019992010
Current release4.3.0, April 20241.8.0, 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyes infoproprietary syntaxnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
noneImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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