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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDataJaguar, Inc.MireoSphinx Technologies Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142015202020011998
Current release3.3 July 20233.5.1, February 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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-storagenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes 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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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