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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comwww.h2database.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksThomas MuellerOxford Semantic Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20142013200520172015
Current release2.2.220, July 20236.0, Septermber 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.with Databricks SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
JavaC
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasereplication via a shared file systemyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, 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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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