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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.geomesa.org

www.h2database.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

CCRi and others

Thomas Mueller

SenX

Initial release

2014

1979

2014

2005

2015

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.0.0, May 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

depending on storage layer

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

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, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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