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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. Ultipa

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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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

doc.nuodb.com

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2005

2013

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

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

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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