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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Spatial extension of H2Microsofts flagship relational DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2gis.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDGraph LabsCNRSMicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release20142017201319892004
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaC++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoJavaC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infobased on H2yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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