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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. Hyprcubd vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd 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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopServerless Time Series DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comhive.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)quasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHyprcubd, Inc.quasardb
Initial release2014200520122009
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
gRPC (https)HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
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)yesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolestoken accessCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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