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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­leveldbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleEmbarcaderoGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20141983198420112012
Current release19.4.1, November 2021InterBase 2020, December 20191.23, February 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infovia pluginsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPHP.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Interbase Change ViewsnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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