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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. dBASE vs. mSQL vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dbase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Asthon Tate

Hughes Technologies

Alachisoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

1979

1994

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.4, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

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

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Write ahead log

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role based authorization

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Typical application scenarios

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