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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of H2A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockCNRSCirconus LLC.Percona
Initial release2014201320172015
Current release2.0, September 2019V0.10.20, January 20183.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2yes, in LuaJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on H2noAccess rights for users and roles

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