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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. PieCloudDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Spatial extension of H2

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#291	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2gis.org

www.openpie.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

OpenPie

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2008

2013

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

based on H2

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

simple authentication-based access control

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