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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.h2database.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFairCom CorporationThomas MuellerOxford Semantic Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20141979200520172015
Current releaseV12, November 20202.2.220, July 20236.0, Septermber 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptANSI C, C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaC
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasereplication via a shared file systemyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagetunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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