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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. dBASE

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. dBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality datadBase 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.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgwww.dbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAsthon Tate
Initial release2014201220121979
Current release29.0.1, April 2024dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL for queryingno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDE
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 DBMS
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and roles

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