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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. H2GIS vs. Immudb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. H2GIS vs. Immudb vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLSpatial extension of H2An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgbrytlyt.iowww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.brytlyt.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.immudb.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBrytlytCNRSCodenotarySphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142016201320202001
Current release5.0, August 20231.2.3, April 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++ and CUDAJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2none
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 integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDno
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 infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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-standardyes infobased on H2no

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