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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcubrid.org/­manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Symas
Initial release20142008200520102011
Current release11.0, January 20212.2.220, July 20230.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++, JavaJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
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 databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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-storageACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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