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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2015

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

using Azure authentication

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