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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Galaxybase vs. H2 vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Thomas Mueller

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

2019

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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