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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

hsqldb.org

objectbox.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.objectbox.io

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ObjectBox Limited

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2001

2017

1993

2010

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4-12

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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