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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Access vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2database.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142013200519922019
Current release2.2.220, July 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
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 FileStorageyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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