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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DataFS vs. H2 vs. MaxDB vs. Trino

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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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Mobiland AG

Thomas Mueller

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2018

2005

1984

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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News

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17 September 2024

65: Performance boosts
12 September 2024

64: Control with Open Policy Agent OPA
22 August 2024

63: Querying with JS
1 August 2024

62: A lakehouse that simply works at Prezi
11 July 2024

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