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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 frontendJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational 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
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbjsqldb.org (offline)spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Konrad von BackstromApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014200520182014
Current release2.0, September 20190.8, December 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptCScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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)yesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 FileStorageyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
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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