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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.snowflake.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

1979

2012

2014

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optional

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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