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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. Prometheus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#131  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#315  Overall
#46  Key-value stores
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score8.00
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orggodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationDGraph LabsThomas Mueller
Initial release20142014201720052015
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoJava.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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