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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Db2

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Db2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.ExasolIBM
Initial release2014201520001983 infohost version
Current release12.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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