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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. TinkerGraph vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.postgres-xl.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Hughes Technologies

Yandex

Initial release

2014

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2023

Current release

4.4, October 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Groovy
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

MVCC

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

optional

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 Control Lists

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