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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. PieCloudDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial 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
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.openpie.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerOpenPie
Initial release2014201019832005
Current release8.1, December 201819.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
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 functionalityyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHPJavaJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLCitusFileMakerH2PieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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