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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

www.h2database.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Thomas Mueller

Machbase

Initial release

2014

1999

2005

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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.

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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