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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Badger vs. BigObject vs. H2

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigobject.io

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bigobject.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

BigObject, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

2015

2005

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Lua

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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