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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA managed, cloud-native vector databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPinecone Systems, IncSybase, SAP
Initial release20142005200820191993
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
PythonDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith 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 methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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