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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.h2database.com

www.hawkular.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.databend.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Databend Labs

Thomas Mueller

Community supported by Red Hat

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2021

2005

2014

2015

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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