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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Blueflood vs. Geode vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orgblueflood.iogeode.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigeode.apache.org/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationRackspaceOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20142014201320021984
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.1, February 20177.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredHP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiespredefined schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCHTTP RESTJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoyes, on a single nodeyes, on a single node
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoAccess rights per client and object definable

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