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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  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 virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-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
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographimpala.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebird FoundationThomas Mueller
Initial release2014201820132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
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-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationWith 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 loadingyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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