DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. STSdb

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

clickhouse.com

geospock.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Clickhouse Inc.

GeoSpock

Percona

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2011

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.0, September 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles

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