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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

machbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

machbase.com/dbms

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Machbase

Alachisoft

Mireo

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

2020

2009

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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