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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. GridDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational 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
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgriddb.nethsqldb.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.griddb.nethsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsToshiba CorporationYanza
Initial release20142012201320012015
Current release5.1, August 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID at container levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLEJDBGridDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBYanza
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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