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

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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.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

newdatabase.com

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Mobiland AG

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Initial release

2014

2018

2005

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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