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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. GeoMesa vs. Rockset vs. Tarantool

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationGeoMesa 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 RocksDBIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.geomesa.orgrockset.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationCCRi and othersRocksetVK
Initial release20142013201420192008
Current release155854.0.5, February 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesdynamic typingstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesyesnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerAutomatic shardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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