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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

kylin.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

1989

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0.0, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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