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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. H2 vs. SQL.JS

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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.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DolphinDB, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2018

2005

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

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

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

ACID

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

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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