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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. Faircom DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarydBase 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.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.dbase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAsthon TateFairCom CorporationPercona
Initial release2014197919792015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V12, November 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMStunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users and roles

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