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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. ITTIA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. ITTIA

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#272  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ittia.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release20142013198320142007
Current release19.4.1, November 20218.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infovia pluginsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoPHPC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesDatabase file passwords

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