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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. OceanBase vs. TempoIQ

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Spatial extension of H2

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2gis.org

en.oceanbase.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2008

2013

2010

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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