DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenSearch vs. Trafodion

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

geospock.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

GeoSpock

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2016

2021

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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