DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. H2GIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. H2GIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Spatial extension of H2

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.exasol.com

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

CNRS

SAP, Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2000

2013

1987

Current release

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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