DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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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	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CCRi and others

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2003

2014

2012

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

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

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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