DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Derby vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Derby vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Machbase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

1997

2005

2013

2020

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

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

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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