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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Rockset vs. Stardog vs. Tigris vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgrockset.comwww.stardog.comwww.tigrisdata.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rockset.comdocs.stardog.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocksetStardog-UnionTigris Data, Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142019201020222014
Current release7.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingyesyesyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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