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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 H2A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockCNRSPerconaVK
Initial release2014201320152008
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.10-2.10, November 20172.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCproprietary protocol using JSONOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaActionscript
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
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2JavaScriptLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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