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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. ReductStore

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

griddb.net

www.h2database.com

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.griddb.net

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Toshiba Corporation

Thomas Mueller

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

2023

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

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

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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 at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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