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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comhsqldb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerAlex Kashirin
Initial release20142005200120132020
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.2, June 20232.7.6, April 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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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 VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
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AlaSQLH2HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBInfluxDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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