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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Drizzle vs. H2

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Drizzle vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#176  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comiotdb.apache.orgwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerThomas Mueller
Initial release20141999201820082005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.0, April 20237.2.4, September 20122.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesyesyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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-standardyesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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