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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCNRSMicrosoftYanza
Initial release20142023201320102015
Current release1.0, March 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes infobased on H2Transact SQLno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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