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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 interfaceM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comboilerbay.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerBoiler Bay Inc.SiteWhereTempoIQ
Initial release20142005200220102012
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
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 loadsnono
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple authentication-based access control

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