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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenQM vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Gigaspaces Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2012

2000

1993

2010

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

predefined scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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