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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.scylladb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.scylladb.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockPerconaScyllaDBOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2014201520151998
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.10-2.10, November 2017ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCproprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptyes, LuaPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate 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-storagenonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
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 infovia In-Memory Engineyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLGeoSpockPercona Server for MongoDBScyllaDBTimesTen
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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