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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 scaleDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release201420102006
Current release2.0, September 2019V128.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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