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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFull-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 HadoopA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgblueflood.iowww.h2database.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRackspaceThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.InterSystems
Initial release20142013200520091997
Current release2.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 20162018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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