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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.geomesa.orghazelcast.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersHazelcast
Initial release2014201920142008
Current release4.0.5, February 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyesnonoyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasdepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyes
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 integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control

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