DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTenBase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2014

1983

1989

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD-3

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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