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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/neptune

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

GeoSpock

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

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

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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