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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. FatDB vs. H2 vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. FatDB vs. H2 vs. Realm

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#116  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.coveo.comwww.h2database.comrealm.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.coveo.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCoveoFatCloudThomas MuellerRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20142012201220052014
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedWindowsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#Java.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia applicationsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyesyes infovia applicationsyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factorWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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