DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.claris.com/filemaker

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2014

2016

1983

2004

Current release

1703

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

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

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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 plugins

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

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

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