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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#231  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#180  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score118.16
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgpinot.apache.orggeospock.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeoSpockOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2014201519842000
Current release1.0.0, September 20232.0, September 20197.4.1.1, 20213.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedHP Open VMSserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBCADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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