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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarydBase 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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAsthon TateThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20141979201420132019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201915.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptGoGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptdBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AlaSQLdBASELokiJSVitessWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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