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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Well established RDBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2database.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Esgyn

Thomas Mueller

Actian Corporation

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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