DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

clickhouse.com

www.geomesa.org

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

clickhouse.com/docs

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

CCRi and others

Hazelcast

Initial release

2014

2015

2016

2014

2008

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

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