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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Gigaspaces Technologies

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2017

2000

2005

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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