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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of H2

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2gis.org

www.monetdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CNRS

MonetDB BV

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2013

2004

2012

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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