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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. CrateDB vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed Database based on LuceneFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#229  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdrill.apache.orgcratedb.comwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdrill.apache.org/­docscratedb.com/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationCrateThomas Mueller
Initial release20142018201220132005
Current release2.3, January 20211.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
C++.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourcerights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLAnzoGraph DBApache DrillCrateDBH2
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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