DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud-based data warehousing service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2014

1992

2010

2015

Current release

17, July 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Java

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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