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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2 vs. Oracle Coherence vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGigaspaces TechnologiesThomas MuellerOracleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20142000200520072015
Current release15.5, September 20202.2.220, July 202314.1, August 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDconfigurablemultiple readers, single writer
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 infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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