DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

machbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Machbase

Mireo

Teradata

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

2020

2005

2009

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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