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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonCCRi and othersHazelcastRisingWave Labs
Initial release20142015201420082022
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.3.6, November 20231.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
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
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlUsers and Roles

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