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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of H2High performance Time Series DBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score7.73
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#250  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.h2gis.orgkx.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecode.kx.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockCNRSKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcPercona
Initial release201420132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015
Current release2.0, September 20193.6, May 20183.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptJavaqC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
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 (q)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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 H2user defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
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.yesnoyesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on H2rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLGeoSpockH2GISKdbPercona Server for MongoDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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