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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbigobject.iowww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupBigObject, Inc.ExasolCCRi and others
Initial release20142016201520002014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesnoyesyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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