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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.keydb.devdocs.kinetica.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.KineticaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142005201920122019
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C, C++Clojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnoACID
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 FileStorageyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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