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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. H2 vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trino

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Asthon Tate

Thomas Mueller

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1979

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

ACID

MVCC

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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