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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenTSDB vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

geospock.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.stardog.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GeoSpock

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Stardog-Union

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2011

2010

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

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)

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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