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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Valentina Server

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerMicrosoftSAP, SybaseParadigma Software
Initial release20142005201219871999
Current release2.2.220, July 202316.05.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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-storageACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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