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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. jBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orggeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeoSpockGoogleRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2014201220081991
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.0, September 20195.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, details hereoptional
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononousing Google App Engineyes
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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