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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2005

1994

2015

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

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