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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenSearch vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.harperdb.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2017

1983

host version

2021

1987

Current release

3.1, August 2021

12.1, October 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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