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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseorientdb.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCNRSMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20142013201020102010
Current releaseV123.2.29, March 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Transact SQLJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersyesyesyesHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 integrityyesyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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