DBMS > AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cockroach Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2014

2015

1983

2014

1995

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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