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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.kinetica.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerKineticaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20141983200520121984
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20237.1, August 20217.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPHPJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, 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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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