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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. dBASE vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationdBase 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.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.dbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationAsthon TateOracleRockset
Initial release20142013197920112019
Current release15585dBASE 2019, 201923.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesoptionaldynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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