DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere

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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.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

RisingWave Labs

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2005

2022

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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