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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaCCRi and othersHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2014201420082010
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLGeoMesaHazelcastIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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