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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergeospock.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeoSpockSTS Soft SC
Initial release201419832011
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.0, September 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infovia pluginsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPHPC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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