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

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

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

boilerbay.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Boiler Bay Inc.

TempoIQ

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2005

2002

2012

2001

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

optimistic locking

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

simple authentication-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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