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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

phoenix.apache.org

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

CCRi and others

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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