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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicebigobject.iowww.dbase.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaCloud Inc.BigObject, Inc.Asthon Tate
Initial release20142016201519792014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptdBase proprietary IDEJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone3 replicasnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno
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AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceBigObjectdBASELokiJS
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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