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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.comvelocitydb.comyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebird FoundationThomas MuellerVelocityDB IncYanza
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200520112015
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAny that supports .NETWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.NetHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Netany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, 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
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authenticationno

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