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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenMLDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseopenmldb.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release20142013201020102020
Current releaseV122024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlangC++C++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptTransact SQLno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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