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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. H2 vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. H2 vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgwww.h2database.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHThomas MuellerSAP infoformerly SybaseSQream Technologies
Initial release20142007200519922017
Current release11.0, June 20242.2.220, July 202317, July 20152022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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