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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#158  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#180  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20142014200720051984
Current release4.0.5, February 2024GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMHP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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