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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DataFS vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Mobiland AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Initial release

2014

2018

2007

2005

1983

host version

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

2.2.220, July 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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