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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. H2 vs. MaxDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbrytlyt.iowww.h2database.commaxdb.sap.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.brytlyt.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBrytlytThomas MuellerSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142016200519842018
Current release5.0, August 20232.2.220, July 20237.9.10.12, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++ and CUDAJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
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 databaseSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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