DBMS > AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. PlanetScale 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.

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

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

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

planetscale.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

FatCloud

PlanetScale

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2012

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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