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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. RDFox vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. RDFox vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOxford Semantic TechnologiesYanza
Initial release20142014200320172015
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.6.27, May 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyesnono
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 API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRoles, resources, and access typesno

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