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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20142014200320122015
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.6.27, May 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonooptimistic lockingmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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