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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YTsaurus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-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 casesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storevictoriametrics.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
ytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerIBMVictoriaMetricsYandex
Initial release20142005201720182023
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.0v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationSynchronous replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists

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