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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Tobias Oetiker

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

1999

1994

2015

2010

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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 languages

JavaScript

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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