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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

help.sap.com/hana

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2013

1983

host version

2010

1999

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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