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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. JanusGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comjanusgraph.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersHazelcastLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20142013201420082017
Current release5.0.0, May 20245.3.6, November 20230.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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