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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. H2 vs. Linter vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

relex.ru

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

Initial release

2014

2018

2005

1990

1984

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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, 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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