DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name

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

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2014

2005

2014

1997

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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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

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

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

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

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

token access

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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