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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

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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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Java, 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)

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

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

Eventual 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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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