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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Interbase vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Interbase vs. KeyDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2database.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerEmbarcaderoEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20142016200519842019
Current release2.2.220, July 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageLua
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACL

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