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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. H2 vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

druid.apache.org

www.h2database.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Thomas Mueller

Oracle

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2011

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

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

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

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

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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