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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

phoenix.apache.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2014

2012

1983

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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