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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

geospock.com

ignite.apache.org

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2015

1984

2000

Current release

2.0, September 2019

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

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)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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