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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dolphindb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DolphinDB, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2014

2018

1983

2005

1984

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

PHP

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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