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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

postgis.net

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

postgis.net/documentation

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rockset

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2005

2019

2010

2000

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

via file-system locks

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 PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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