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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.keydb.devdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Thomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20142004200520192017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.2.220, July 20234.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD-3Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, Java, PythonJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes, plus "flex" map-like types
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Standard with numerous extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#JavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLuano
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLyes
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