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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. Trafodion

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 gridTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.geomesa.orghazelcast.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersHazelcastApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142013201420082014
Current release5.0.1, July 20245.3.6, November 20232.3.0, February 2019
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 languageJavaScriptGoScalaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
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 languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated Mapyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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