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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenQM vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comhsqldb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20141999200119932010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.7.2, June 20233.4-1211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsJava, SQLyesJava
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyesMulti-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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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