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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFull-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 BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector 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
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoft
Initial release20142019200520082015
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing Azure authentication

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