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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Tigris

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-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 ElasticSearchA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score7.10
Rank#47  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#356  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerSpotifyPerconaTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20142005201420152022
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
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, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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