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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2014

2001

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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