DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.46
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Embarcadero

Kyligence, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1983

1984

2016

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

via plugins

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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