DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Hyprcubd vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2005

1994

2020

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

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

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

yes

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