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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Stardog vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Stardog vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.stardog.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlintrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.stardog.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffStardog-UnionOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142010199820092014
Current release7.3.0, May 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
TinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Groovy
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaPL/SQLnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes infovia event handlersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes, 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 in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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