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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Thomas MuellerMicrosoft
Initial release2014201220052015
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V1
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 servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PythonJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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