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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score99.49
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#130  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgquasar.aiwww.sqlite.orgwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffquasardbDwayne Richard HippStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142009200020102014
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20247.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes 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.SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL 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
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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