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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. Trino vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data gridFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comhazelcast.comtrino.iotypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
typedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerHazelcastTrino Software FoundationVaticle
Initial release2014200520082012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2016
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes, depending on connected data-sourceno
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingdepending on connected data-sourceSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated Mapdepending on connected data-sourceMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithmdepending on connected data-sourceImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commiteddepending on connected data-sourceACID
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 FileStorageyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlSQL standard access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AlaSQLH2HazelcastTrinoTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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