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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comwww.h2database.comhazelcast.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerThomas MuellerHazelcast
Initial release20142012200820052008
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.2.4, September 20122.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
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-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
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 extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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