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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of H2A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irispouchdb.comravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clspouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSInterSystemsApache Software FoundationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20142013201820122010
Current release2023.3, June 20237.1.1, June 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2yesnoAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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