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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#161  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
victoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerBaiduVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142010200520182018
Current release8.1, December 20182.2.220, July 20230.9v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoedges in graphno
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions

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