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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Spatial extension of H2

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geospock.com

www.h2gis.org

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

GeoSpock

CNRS

Percona

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2015

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Read/Write Locking

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

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