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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. dBASE vs. H2 vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. dBASE vs. H2 vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLdBase 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.dbase.comwww.h2database.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAsthon TateThomas Mueller
Initial release20142010197920052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release8.1, December 2018dBASE 2019, 20192.2.220, July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
dBase proprietary IDEJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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