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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Rdb vs. XTDB

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

geospock.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GeoSpock

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1984

2019

Current release

2.0, September 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

hosted

HP Open VMS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes, on a single node

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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