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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2014

1983

2014

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

PHP

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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