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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CCRi and others

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2015

2007

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual 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 single-row operations

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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