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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Altibase

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1999

2014

2018

2014

2006

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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