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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. H2 vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely 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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Thomas Mueller

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2014

2004

2005

1984

2004

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding via remote tables

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

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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