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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoMesa vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#302  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#373  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#157  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsFairCom CorporationCCRi and othersOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142012197920141998
Current releaseV3, October 20204.0.5, February 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCANSI C, C++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infowhen using SQLnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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