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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.progress.com/­openedgequasar.aisql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9documentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Progress Software CorporationquasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20141991198420092012
Current release5.7OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and groupsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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