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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AntDB vs. H2 vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.h2database.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

typedb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Thomas Mueller

Vaticle

Initial release

2014

2005

2016

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL2016 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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