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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational 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	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

IBM

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2015

1983

host version

2008

Current release

12.1, October 2016

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

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)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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