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

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Spatial extension of H2

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

geospock.com

www.h2gis.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GeoSpock

CNRS

Percona

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

1998

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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