DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.ibm.com/products/db2

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Hyprcubd, Inc.

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2005

1983

host version

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

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

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

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

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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