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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset vs. Solr

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
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
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrockset.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersOracleRocksetApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142014201120192006
Current release4.0.5, February 202423.3, December 20239.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionaldynamic typingyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJava plugins
Triggersyesnononoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 layeryes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyes

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