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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. H2 vs. openGauss vs. XTDB

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.h2database.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.firebolt.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebolt Analytics Inc.Thomas MuellerHuawei and openGauss communityJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142020200520192019
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.0, March 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, C++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesANSI SQL 2011limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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