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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml vs. Tibero

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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.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

informationpartners gmbh

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

2005

2017

2015

2003

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

1.0

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

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

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

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

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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