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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. H2 vs. KairosDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.dbase.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaAsthon TateThomas Mueller
Initial release20142016197920052013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.2.220, July 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavadBase proprietary IDEJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Javano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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