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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.commanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerManticore SoftwareMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142005201720102014
Current release2.2.220, July 20236.0, February 2023V122.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsTransact SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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-storageACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
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 infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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