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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  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.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/jsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Circonus LLC.Konrad von Backstrom
Initial release2014200520172018
Current release2.0, September 2019V0.10.20, January 20180.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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, categoricalno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnono
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 APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in Luafunctions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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