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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. OceanBase vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. OceanBase vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comen.oceanbase.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupMireoSQream Technologies
Initial release20142005201020202017
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.3.0, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Fixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication using PaxosReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
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 FileStorageyesyesyesyes
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-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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