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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.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 protocolsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCCRi and othersThomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20142014200520191993
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD-3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
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
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.nonononono
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.noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
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
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLuayes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneShardingnone
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 databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDOptimistic 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.yesdepending on storage layeryesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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