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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Spatial extension of H2

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2014

2005

2013

1991

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

based on H2

yes

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, 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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