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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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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.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.firebolt.io

www.h2database.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.firebolt.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2020

2005

1987

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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