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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Memcached

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersSpotifyDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2014201420142003
Current release4.0.5, February 20241.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
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 layeryesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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