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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.05
Rank	#91	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2014

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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