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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 protocolsAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.keydb.devdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release2014200520192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.5, January 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
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.yesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLuauser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
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
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
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 scriptsACIDACID infoMVCC
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
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-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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