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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Derby vs. FatDB vs. H2 vs. ITTIA

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Thomas Mueller

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2014

1997

2012

2005

2007

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

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

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

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Database file passwords

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