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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.heavy.aihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaThomas MuellerHEAVY.AI, Inc.SAP, Sybase
Initial release2014200520161987
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.10, January 202216.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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