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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. JaguarDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An 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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

www.jaguardb.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Thomas Mueller

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Multi-source replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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