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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  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)Spatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsCNRSYanza
Initial release20142012201320012015
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open 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 languageJavaScriptCJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessAll 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_idyesyesno
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.noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryHTTP 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
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2Java, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infobased on H2nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 controlnonoyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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