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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.firebolt.io

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.firebolt.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Initial release

2014

2020

2005

2014

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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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