DBMS > AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

1979

2010

1980

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V12

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

predefined scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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