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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

dBase 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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hyprcubd.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

1979

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

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 rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

token access

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