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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Alachisoft

Initial release

2014

2015

1979

2014

2005

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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