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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Event Store Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.51 Rank #256   Overall #40   Document stores #118   Relational DBMS	Score 0.27 Rank #309   Overall #2   Event Stores #28   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS
Website	alasql.org	www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store	machbase.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	github.com/­AlaSQL/­alasql	www.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store	machbase.com/­dbms
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	IBM	Machbase	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2014	2017	2013	1993
Current release		2.0	V8.0, August 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial free developer edition available	commercial free test version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	C and C++	C
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition	Linux macOS Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	yes through the embedded Spark runtime	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	ADO.NET DB2 Connect JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C C# C++ Cobol Delphi Fortran Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python R Ruby Scala Visual Basic	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	no	yes
Triggers	yes	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Active-active shard replication	selectable replication factor	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Eventual Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	no	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		No - written data is immutable	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage	no	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes	yes volatile and lookup table	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	AlaSQL	IBM Db2 Event Store	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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