DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2014

2005

2016

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC (https)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

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

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

token access

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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