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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

postgis.net

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

postgis.net/documentation

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2005

2019

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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

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