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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.sqlite.orgtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSDwayne Richard HippTempoIQ
Initial release20142008201320002012
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infovia file-system locksyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2nosimple authentication-based access control

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