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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle
Initial release20141999200520082007
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurable
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 infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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