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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

machbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

LeanXcale

Machbase

Initial release

2014

1983

2015

2014

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

via plugins

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

PHP

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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