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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trino

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Database based on LuceneSpatial extension of SQLiteFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcratedb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextrino.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcratedb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCrateAlessandro FurieriTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2014201320082012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release5.8.1, August 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-lessLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)noyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnoSQL standard access control
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