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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerElasticThomas Mueller
Initial release20142012200820102005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.2.4, September 20128.6, January 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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