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

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.mcobject.com

geospock.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

McObject

GeoSpock

STS Soft SC

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2001

2011

1998

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.0, September 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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