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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak TS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak TS vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.complanetscale.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlplanetscale.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerPlanetScaleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142005202020152019
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.0.0, September 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoErlangClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes, limitedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoproprietary syntaxErlangno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
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
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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