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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. HarperDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

www.harperdb.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

FatCloud

HarperDB

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2020

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

via applications

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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