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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CNRS

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2010

2023

Current release

V12

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

via views

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

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

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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