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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. LMDB vs. PostGIS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comboilerbay.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbpostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.lmdb.tech/­docpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerBoiler Bay Inc.Symas
Initial release20142005200220112005
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.00.9.32, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaCC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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