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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoMesa vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.geomesa.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationFairCom CorporationCCRi and othersRockset
Initial release20142013197920142019
Current release15585V3, October 20204.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaANSI C, C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningdepending on storage layerAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
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.yesyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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