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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FoundationDB

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

2010

2012

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

yes

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

no

some layers support typing

yes

yes

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.

no

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

no

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

in SQL-layer only

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

no

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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