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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak TS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.featurebase.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.featurebase.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsCCRi and othersOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2014201720142015
Current release2022, May 20225.0.0, May 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoScalaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL queriesnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlang
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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