DBMS > AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Access vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Website

alasql.org

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Asthon Tate

Google

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

1979

2010

1992

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark 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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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

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