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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. FeatureBase vs. H2 vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. FeatureBase vs. H2 vs. Hypertable

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgblueflood.iowww.featurebase.comwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.featurebase.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRackspaceMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.
Initial release20142013201720052009
Current release2022, May 20222.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnononoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL queriesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate 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-storagenoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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