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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. OrientDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

machbase.com/dbms

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Machbase

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2005

2013

2010

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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