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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. chDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Spatial extension of H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#251	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	76.53
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.h2gis.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

doc.chdb.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CNRS

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2023

2013

1999

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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