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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonApache Software FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.CNRS
Initial release20142012201420072013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infobased on H2
Triggersyesnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)yes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancySecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on H2

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