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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databend.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabend LabsFirebird FoundationThomas Muellerinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201420212000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20052015
Current release1.0.59, April 20235.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Linux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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