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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MaxDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

maxdb.sap.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

IBM

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2005

2017

1984

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.0

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

none

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

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

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)

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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