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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 relational database management system that stores data in columnsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
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
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockMonetDB BVSTS Soft SCOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2014200420111998
Current release2.0, September 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0.8, September 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptCC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, RnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tablesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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