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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonThomas MuellerKyligence, Inc.
Initial release2014201220052016
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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