DBMS > AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Spatial extension of H2

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.h2gis.org

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CNRS

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

1993

2014

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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