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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase 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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateCirconus LLC.
Initial release20142015197920172014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
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 DBMSnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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