DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2005

1984

1992

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

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

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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