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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. openGauss

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSMicrosoftHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20142019201320102019
Current releaseV123.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2Transact SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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