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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgbrytlyt.iowww.h2database.comwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.brytlyt.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBrytlytThomas MuellerCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20142016200520142008
Current release5.0, August 20232.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++ and CUDAJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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