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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Spatial extension of H2

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Axibase Corporation

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

2013

2014

Current release

15585

2.2.220, July 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license 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)

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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