DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.h2database.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Firebird Foundation

Thomas Mueller

informationpartners gmbh

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

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
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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