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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iowww.h2database.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Thomas MuellerVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142012202020052018
Current release2.2.220, July 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lesshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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