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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 complexityFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Well established RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.h2database.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databend.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabend LabsThomas MuellerActian CorporationJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2014202120051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019
Current release1.0.59, April 20232.2.220, July 202311.2, May 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustJavaCClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseIngres Replicatoryes, each node contains all data
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-storageyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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