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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 scaleA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.openpie.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockMicrosoftOpenPieOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release201420121998
Current release2.0, September 20192.1, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenooptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLGeoSpockMicrosoft Azure Table StoragePieCloudDBTimesTen
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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