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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. H2 vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

galaxybase.com

www.h2database.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Thomas Mueller

quasardb

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2005

2009

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

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 with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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