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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. RavenDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. Trino

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

ravendb.net

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

ravendb.net/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Hibernating Rhinos

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2010

2020

1987

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

5.4, July 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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