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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rackspace

SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

1999

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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