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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Stardog vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Stardog vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgopentsdb.netwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.stardog.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulffcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsStardog-UnionByteDance, originally TerarkApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142011201020162014
Current release7.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesnoyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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